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machone

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Trial Bikes
« on: June 27, 2012, 02:05:58 AM »
Sorry if this has been mentioned before but...

ELECTRIC TRIALS BIKES!!

http://www.osetbikes.com/

http://plugbike.com/2010/03/16/gas-gas-txt-etrail-pro-electric-trials-motorcycle/

They are winning over their gas powered competitors! I was looking at a French TV magazine on Motors TV and heard 'this electric trial bike has been on the podium 3 times already and will be in shops at the end of the year'.
They will dominate in these events. It's incredible what these guys do with their bikes but electric steady CofG and high Tq has to be perfect for this event.

Winning in these events already, other events and disciplines will follow, this is just the beginning.....
 
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Re: Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 06:28:11 AM »
I suspect the Engage and the Encite will make great trials bikes when they go into production. The cool thing, I think, will be that you won't need a dedicated trials bike. Keep it in low gear for the show, then ride it home on the highway in high gear.
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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2012, 06:48:35 AM »
I think the ones that are beating the ICE are dedicated machines - not road legal. Those guys are fairly serious about their sport and to win you need a highly modified bike that'll take you along thick mud tracks and very steep rock faces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbECu2fnnMo#ws

Not saying the engage and excite won't do it but to compete and win, which is the big news(evs winning against ICE counterparts - first time?), the bikes are most definately dedicated machines that'll be going back and forth to events on a truck, but hopefully less gas guzzling trucks than Gavin's new beast!

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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 08:15:00 AM »
Nicely shot video.

You could probably strip off the license plates, lights, and snap in a fresh battery to compete. Zero used to make street legal kits for both the X and MX bikes, but they've settled on making the X street legal and the MX competition-only.
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Re: Trial Bikes Differences
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2012, 09:04:33 AM »
This website shows visually the difference between a motocross bike, a trail bike and a trials bike.

http://www.zevmoto.com/

What is the American name for the bike sport where you hop over rocks, up and down almost vertical faces and through mud tracks and streams, timed, and you loose points for putting your foot down? - That's what I mean by trials. It's big in Europe but used to be bigger than it is.

Are there any other disciplines where Electric bikes are beating their ICE competitors?
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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 09:29:00 AM »
More TrIAL not TrAIL bike action:

Electric Motion EM 5.7 trial électrique

MR - Electric Trial GasGas - 1.Ride

French people taking the mickey out of German people on the second one.....careful fellas!


From wiki:
Motorcycle trials, also termed observed trials, is a non-speed event on specialized motorcycles. The sport is most popular in the United Kingdom and Spain, though there are participants around the globe.
Trial motorcycles are distinctive in that they are extremely lightweight, lack seating (they are designed to be ridden standing up) and have suspension travel that is short, relative to a motocross or enduro motorcycle.
Motorcycle trials is often utilized by competitors of other motorcycle sports (such as motocross or street racers) as a way to cross-train, as trials teaches great throttle, balance, and machine control.
[edit]Characteristics

The event is split into sections where a competitor rides through an obstacle course while attempting to avoid touching the ground with the feet. The obstacles in the course may be of natural or constructed elements. In all sections, regardless of content, the designated route is carefully contrived to test the skill of the rider. In many local observed trials events, the sections are divided into separate courses to accommodate the different skill level of riders, who compete in skill-rated classes.''


Interestingly the rules used to state that points were deducted for stalling the engine - not possible on an  electric. The coverage I saw was French with Dutch overdubbing which for me was a little too difficult to fully comprehend. However, it was yesterday and I did grasp that an electric won!

IMHO it's a great sport to watch and I miss not having mainstream TV coverage of it.
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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2012, 09:35:12 AM »
I believe the Zero bikes are beating their gas competition in supermoto and trails (not trials, as you say) events. The classification for those events seems kind of screwy.. based on wheel size instead of power output (or displacement).. I definitely don't have a good understanding of the sport.
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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2012, 09:49:08 AM »
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I definitely don't have a good understanding of the sport.

A chink!

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Re: Trial Bikes
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2012, 08:53:23 AM »
Just had an email from Electric Motion and the bike featured in the videos above is on sale now for 4895Euro. Being produced in numbers now.

If I was a trials rider I'd buy one!....but I'm not.

Here is a bike competing and winning against the ICE equivalent costing no more than the ICE equivalent - this is what we need in the road bike world.
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